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Fark
Back in the 1985 Neil Postman warned of the dawn of this age of non-news in his book Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age of Show Business. It's still worth a read for its analysis of the impact of fark on America's ways of thinking.
Posted to Press Box by Doc R on June 5, 2008
Slate Running to the Defense of Murdoch's Rep
Rupert Murdoch is a major, worldwide corporatized Media Baron who is wealthy beyond comprehension of most Americans and certainly most people worldwide. Rupert Murdoch owns a media empire that just keeps expanding, and which now includes the Wall Street Journal, and apparently now, New York City's Newsday. I would like to see a complete list of ...
Posted to Press Box by MichaelBernard1 on April 24, 2008
Decline in circulation, newspapers' importance
It's inevitable. They are voracious beasts that consume too much paper, gasoline, poisonous ink, etc. The Internet is what killed them, regardless of what pundits say. Newspapers were too slow to shift gears, just like libraries--though they are making a comeback because they're ''free'' and not profit-driven. If news outlets were to become ...
Posted to Press Box by battlemaiden on January 23, 2008